Category: Trip

Yesterday we took a 35000 step 9 hour walking tour of Kyoto. Starting from our hotel (adjacent to the station) we first visited Higashi temple, said to have the biggest wooden building in the world:

This was followed by Nijo castle, which had an exceptional audio guide that over two hours told us all we wanted to know about the 400-year-old castle:

In the afternoon we hit the (famous) shopping district with its endless covered streets that shaded us from the sun.

We saw everything from gold poop statues…

To grilled sparrow…

To Japanese girls in kimono playing UFO catchers…

Plus we bought a giant duffle bag for the return trip; absolutely necessary due to how stuffed our cases had become 🙂

We’re in Kyoto now, speeding here yesterday on a bullet train. We spent the afternoon around the station area where there are several malls and lots to see.

We went up this tower and had a goosey gander. We were particularly taken by the mascot ‘Tawawa’ (geddit?); I’ll put one on your postcard!

Kyoto station has a department store in it with a super fancy food department. Even for someone that spent $60 to ride the bullet train for 11 minutes yesterday, $150 for a rockmelon seems excessive ?

Even though we’ve filled our cases to bursting we bought a bunch more stuff yesterday, from toys to books to food. How will we bring this home?

That’s KLS’s dinner, crab omelette over rice, at a restaurant in the station. No spaghetti photos today!